Sock suspender



April 19, 193%. J. HAUSMANN' 2,114,561

SOCK SUSPENDER Filed Dec. 12, 1936 Patented Apr. 19, 1938 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE Application December 12, 1936, Serial No. 115,508 InGermany December 17, 1935 2 Claims.

Sock-suspenders heretofore have been applied in a form generallyinjurious to health, as my experiences have shown in the medicaltreatment of varicose veins and other bodily defects,

owing to the stagnation in the circulation of blood on account of unduepressure exerted by such other suspender-constructions. The evil effectsof such old sock-suspenders upon the body have been recognized long agoand many have been the ways tried to overcome their injurious defects,without, however, any great success. Elastic bands have been mostlyemployed to this end, surrounding the leg below'theknee, yet even anapproximate fit is diflicult to insure. Aside from this fact, aleg-surrounding support will always exert a certain undue pressure onthe veins and arteries, while the mode of application in verticallysuspending the holders from undergarments, short undertrousers or theshirt, do 20 not insure a sufficient hold and easily allow the socks toslip and spoil their appearance.

All these disadvantages are avoided by means of the improvements insock-suspenders which I have designed and tried out in practical usage.I employ three ribbons, preferably elastic, diverging in the shape of astar or T, connected with one another directly or by means of atriangular or polygon-shaped middle piece, and bearing at their freeends catch-es, e. g. clamps; or I employ 30 a polygon-shaped, preferablytriangular flat support of leather, rubber, fabric or the like, havingthe catches at its: corners. Said catches serve for easily securing mysock-suspender at its two upper corners to the underwear, while thelower corner will be connected to the sock-border. In such a way the twoupper branches of the socksuspender slightly contract the underwearabove the calf, so that it cannot slip down over the calf and the sockis well fastened.

The construction of my sock-suspender may be varied without departingfrom the spirit of the invention. The main feature of the invention isthat the vertical pull exerted by the sock upon the suspender issubdivided into two diverging components, acting slightly to contractthe underwear above the calf.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figs.1 and 2 are elevational views showing two forms of the invention, and

Fig. 3 shows the embodiment of Fig. 1 applied to clothing.

In Fig. 1 three short connecting ribbons 2, 3 5 and 4, preferably ofelastic material, are secured together by a body piece 5 of polygonalshape. At the end of each of the ribbons 2, 3 and 4 is a catch 6. Thecatches of the ribbons 2 and 3 are arranged so that their axes form anobtuse angle, while the axis of the catch on the ribbon 4 bisects thisangle. The axis of the catch is the line along which its force isexerted when it is applied to the clothing, as shown in Fig. 3.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 the catches 6 are applied directly tothe corners of a body piece 7 in the form of an equilateral triangle.The axes of all the catches in this form of the invention therefore lieapart.

It is evident that by only partly surrounding the leg just below theknee and above the calf, the pressure exerted on the leg by this hold iswell distributed over a large surface by the more or less elasticunderwear, and no indentation whatsoever will appear on the leg, thusavoiding all undue pressure thereon with dangerous effects and ratherobtaining a slight massaging accelerating the circulation of the blood.

Having thus described my said invention what I claim is: 0

1. In a sock supporter, three catches and means uniting said catches sothat the axes of two of them.f-orm an obtuse angle while the rearwardextension of the axis of the third one bisects said angle. 35

2. In combination with a sock and the leg of an undergarment adapted toreach below the knee of the wearer, a support for said sock comprisingtwo catches connected together and engaging the leg of the undergarmentat circumferentially spaced points below the knee of the wearer, and athird catch connected to the other two extending downward to engage thesock, whereby the pull of the sock is distributed circumferentially tothe leg of the undergarment to draw the same against the leg of thewearer.

J USTUS HAUSMANN.

